As we build our platforms and applications following a human-computer symbiosis approach, we keep an ear to the ground for interesting examples that illuminate new techniques or validate our approach in some empirical way. One of the areas that we’re interested is in the overall friction of analysis systems. The systems that we build are [...]
If you’ve taken the time to peruse the Palantir Government analysis blog, you’ve seen numerous examples of Palantir Government as applied to interesting problems; they are recorded screen captures of our analysis desktop client. It’s a showcase of useful, meaningful, and compelling visual and semantic tools being used to do analysis on a wide range [...]
[A number of weeks ago, we published a post on the search technology used by Palantir. That post covered raising the memory efficiency of a couple of operations. This is part two of that series.] The most familiar use of search engines is to index documents made available on the Internet via the hypertext transfer [...]
Software engineering is a craft that blends science and art. This fact is easy to overlook as the artistic aspects are often eclipsed by discussions of the science and technology behind what we do. This is not one of those times: the art in software engineering is most evident when building compelling visual interfaces, something [...]
We put up a post last year on the 2008 VAST Grand Challenge. Well, the IEEE VAST Challenge 2009 is over and the awards are in. We had another strong year, scoring two awards: Grand Challenge: Analyst’s Tool Choice (Of 48 submissions, only 3 Grand Challenge awards were given) Intuitive Traffic Visualization and Video Description [...]
A Palantir cluster seamlessly integrates many pieces of proven technology. One of them is our customized version of the venerable Java search engine, Lucene. Search engine technology tends to be optimized for the common use case of indexing web documents (or similar information architectures) where you have a few search terms in each query and [...]
Here at Palantir we use test-driven development (or TDD for short). Integrated tools like Eclipse and JUnit simplify writing and running unit tests. However, once you need to test a broader swath of functionality, it’s time to write functional, integration, and system tests. While technically not ‘unit testing’, the testing framework that JUnit provides is [...]
Palantir is an intense place to work. There are people here around the clock (since developers set their own schedules) and folks and equipment arriving and leaving all the time. We’re a very focused bunch, trying to change the world as fast as we can by creating a whole new class of tools. However, we’re [...]
As we mentioned in an earlier post, Palantir was recently invited to the IEEE’s VisWeek in Dayton Ohio, and was honored to be invited to participate in the VAST Interactive Challenge as part of VisWeek. After winning an award for Interactive Visual Analytic Environment, Palantir was one of three teams selected to participate in the [...]
On Oct. 9th, Palantir hosted our quarterly Government Conference in the DC area. The idea was to bring together customers of Palantir Government from across the defense and intelligence community to create a forum for them to: Talk candidly about their experiences using Palantir Discuss the many different domains they apply our technology against, everything [...]
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